McDonalds Giving Students Happy Meals for A's...Appropriate?

The commercialization of educational culture, particularly in elementary schools, has long been a contentious issue. It has become more clamorous in the last decade as hard-pressed school districts seek to raise money for academic programs, sports and extracurricular activities without raising taxes.

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Scientist WhoSparked Racism Has BlackGenes

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who provoked a public outcry by claiming black Africans were less intelligent than whites has a DNA profile with up to 16 times more genes of black origin than the average white European.

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Amazon sends best Customer Service letter ever!!

After not getting offered a discounted laptop in Amazon's Customer Vote promotion, one customer wrote a "cheeky" letter to Amazon Executive Customer Service. It's only appropriate that Amazon had their own cheeky response.

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New HondaASIMO Can SelfCharge, AvoidPeople, Work In Group

When scientists in some bunker in the year 2525 are trying to determine when humanity handed over the keys to the robot overlords, December 11, 2007, may be a good date, for on this day, Honda announced it had given its ASIMO servant robots three key abilities. Here we break them down, and provide a "Future Shock" analysis of each:When scientists in some bunker in the year 2525 are trying to determine when humanity handed over the keys to the robot overlords, December 11, 2007, may be a good date, for on this day, Honda announced it had given its ASIMO servant robots three key abilities. Here we break them down, and provide a "Future Shock" analysis of each:• Autonomous battery charging - Honda developed a Borg-like charging bay for ASIMO. When the robot's battery level drops to a certain point, it seeks out the closest bay.Future Shock: Seeking a power source is the first step towards domination, Coppertop.• Avoiding oncoming people - ASIMO sees an oncoming person through its eye camera, judges its inertia, guesses its speed and path, then either changes course to steer clear, or simply takes a step back. Future Shock: If they're taught subservience, they start questioning their predestined role. Also, doesn't this sound a lot like targeting?• Working together - This involves constant sharing of relevant data between networked ASIMOs, and a survey of which robot is closest to the most pressing task, and what his battery life status is. Among them, they "decide" which one is best suited to go in and do the job.Future Shock: If I have to explain to you why robots working together could be a bad thing, well, you're probably already dead. [Honda]

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Five gifts that are Contra 4

...if you're planning to give it to someone for one of the winter gift-giving holidays, you're due to start high-fiving yourself right now. Put on a headband, too. Gaming sites are inundated with holiday gift guides at the end of the year, listing the best and most popular games that everyone pretty much already has (or knows about). Well, we're not going in for that this year. Our gift guide will help you find the best gifts in categories the other sites won't cover -- because we just made them up.All year, we held out vain hope that the American-developed DS Contra sequel wouldn't be terrible. We tried to put our memories of Appaloosa Interactive's two PlayStation failures out of our minds and have faith in WayForward. We did our best to believe that a new 2D Contra had the potential not to be a crushing disappointment. We were rewarded with one of the best games on the DS, and possibly the best game in the Contra series. It's hard to think of a better DS game than Konami's mind-blowingly manly Contra 4. So we didn't try. We've put together this guide to five of the best gifts you can give this holiday season, all of which are Contra 4. While it would most certainly be enough to list Contra 4 five times, we thought we would break it up by listing five different ways to package the gift of Contra.

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MUST SEE: Subaru Impreza WRX STI 170 Foot Jump (Pics & Vid)

Ken Block co-owner of DC shoes was on the cover of snowboarder magazine for jumping his Subaru Impreza on 60 and 100 ft plus gaps in New Zealand.

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Limbaugh Will Not Be Charged Over Viagra

Rush Limbaugh will not face criminal charges after authorities found he had a bottle of Viagra that was apparently prescribed to someone else, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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